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‘However, fresh fish can be breaded and pan-fried with a crispy cornmeal coating in less than 10 minutes.’

‘Rather than relying on fried onions from the can, I breaded the onions in panko (Japanese breadcrumbs).’

‘I went about breading and frying slices of extra-firm tofu as the aroma of fried chicken filled the kitchen.’

‘Bread meat, chicken and fish rather than broiling or roasting them.’

‘Use a separate breading station for vegetables and meats or just make sure you bread the vegetables first.’

‘Once all fish are breaded, cover with plastic wrap and place in refrigerator for 15 minutes.’

‘I used ground beef, cubed mozarella instead of cheese string, and I breaded the meatballs.’

‘Continue breading each food item, keeping them separate on the plate or baking sheet.’

‘So although I have no problem breading veal, or diving into the intricacies of pasta making, seafood remains a bit of a mystery to me.’

‘Amaranth flour is good for breading fish or chicken.’

Phrases

be the best (or greatest) thing since sliced bread

informal Be very good:

‘they think that she is the greatest thing since sliced bread’

‘That's not to say there isn't a market there, rather that we haven't been convinced it's quite the next best thing since sliced bread.’

‘Some people are a little confused by this latest trend, wondering what all the fuss is about and why it's becoming the next best thing since sliced bread.’

‘She finally locates the Assistant Wine Whatever-His-Title-Is, and he of the broad-smile-on-a-wide-face recommends the wine as if it were the next best thing since sliced bread.’

‘While some analysts think it's the next best thing since sliced bread, it has the feeling of WAP redux.’

‘Just because almost everyone thinks the group is the next best thing since sliced bread doesn't mean that it won't fall apart.’

bread and circuses

Entertainment or political policies used to keep the mass of people happy and docile:

‘with football and politics as the bread and circuses of our decadent empire, whither religion?’

‘Office-holders spend much of their time supplying bread and circuses.’

‘A couple of millennia ago, Roman satirist Juvenal said that there were only two things that a citizen anxiously wished for - bread and circuses.’

‘Outside its locked doors, amid atmospheric squalor, the huddling masses distract themselves with bread and circuses, while one man agitates for revolution.’

‘I am reminded of Juvenal's weary dictum about bread and circuses, which in rough translation said the Roman citizen thought of little else but feeding his face and watching sport.’

‘Call me economically irrational, call me sentimental, call me a sucker for bread and circuses, but I must admit I got a buzz over seeing the first train arrive in Darwin at the weekend.’

‘All the citizen sheep require is a shepherd to provide bread and circuses and to whisper electronic promises of security into their ears at night.’

‘The modern version of globalization, by contrast, is run more along Roman lines, in which the provinces are milked to pay for the bread and circuses of the imperial heartland.’

‘To use his own analogy, at present the people enjoy both bread and circuses.’

‘My suspicion is that it all went wrong after ordinary citizens tired of bread and circuses and moved on to musicals.’

‘Then we would dump it in favor of bread and circuses.’

‘And in the time-honoured political tradition of ensuring the plebeians are provided with both bread and circuses, there is a mysterious allocation for a ‘national indoor sports facility’, location unknown.’

‘All the rest is a soap opera dreamed up by politicians and their lickspittles in the London media, just as mad Roman emperors gave their citizens bread and circuses to keep them from revolting.’

‘And this kind of mass entertainment destroyed the morality of the Roman people, who no longer worked for a living; they lived on bread and circuses, on entertainment and the dole.’

‘It also feeds nationalist hunger among the populace, making them proud of the achievements of their country even while they realize that they live under an authoritarian and corrupt government - bread and circuses for the masses.’

‘It's said that the mainstream media is increasingly dominated by corporate interests, political spin, and bread and circuses postmodern pap.’

‘To suggest that Roman numerals are not appropriate to enumerate the Super Bowl is to fail to understand the significance of bread and circuses in ancient Rome and their connection to the legendary circuses during Super Bowl week.’

‘Besides bread and circuses, (invented to distract everyone from toppling tyrants in the ‘good old days’), something had to be done to let frisky folks vent a little.’

‘And maybe near-by, someone will hear something a little less shrill than the sound of 100,000,000 people clamoring for more bread and circuses.’

‘We're surrounded by show, just as the Roman Empire turned to bread and circuses to hide other things that were taking place.’

‘It would seem that little has changed since the first-century Roman satirist Juvenal famously wrote that all that the modern citizen craved was bread and circuses.’

bread and water

A frugal diet that is eaten in poverty, chosen in abstinence, or given as a punishment:

‘he could be put on bread and water for forty-eight hours’

‘It would almost certainly be possible to generate public enthusiasm for public executions and feeding prisoners on bread and water.’

‘How would you like your bread and water, Mr. Galileo?’

‘As Hollywood learned long before many of us were born, when you dish up bread and water because it's quick and easy, a starved population will eat.’

‘What these people need is a diet of bread and water.’

‘The 32 measures included sleep and sensory deprivation, the use of military dogs to terrify prisoners, temperature extremes and diets of bread and water.’

‘It will be a tough bread and water diet supplemented by soul searching and large slices of humble pie topped by healthy sprinklings of modesty.’

‘Any OAPs without a private pension must be living on bread and water.’

‘They had no bed, breakfast was bread and water and dinner was a bowl of rice with chicken carcass or turkey neck.’

‘It's a step up from bread and water, but it is ridiculous that this is what he's expected to live on.’

‘After an hour of watching kids lick ice creams in front of us - while we survived bread and water - we were released, having raised around $16,000 to help the Red Cross continue its vital community work.’

‘Affluent Russians are paying hundreds of pounds to enlist at an army boot camp where they are forced to complete gruelling runs through muddy fields, and where they are fed on porridge, bread and water and are bullied by officers.’

‘In the age of budget cuts, does the warden ever call down and tell him to forget the steak dinners, it's going to be bread and water for awhile?’

‘So I ended up with bread and water for the first two days.’

‘‘Oh yeah, it's great - finally I can eat more than bread and water,’ he joked.’

‘The cardinals soon chose Gregory X who, three years later, introduced new rules for the election of Popes, including one that said cardinals had to meet in seclusion on a gradually reduced diet until they were living on bread and water.’

‘This included locking them up for a week on a diet of bread and water.’

‘During the mass children carried symbolic objects including pieces of wood, representing the rural forest communities who were deported, and bread and water, symbolising food rations in the camps.’

‘‘It's just regular food, not bread and water,’ she confirmed.’

‘The Vatican asked Catholics to either abstain from all food from sunrise to sunset, as devout Muslims do, take just bread and water, or eat the minimum required for their health.’

‘I wince when I spot a bill on the doormat, I'm on tenterhooks when the car is in for a service (as it was last week - it's bread and water for us for the next couple of months) and fear the worst when I get a receipt from the cash point.’

bread and wine

The consecrated elements used in the celebration of the Eucharist; the sacrament of the Eucharist:

‘he rejected the idea of any physical presence of Christ in the bread and wine’

‘On the night before he died, Jesus transformed the Passover bread and wine into his own body and blood and told us to eat and drink.’

‘In faith and trust, we need to receive into our very bodies and souls the true presence of Jesus in and through the elements of bread and wine.’

‘The non-divine, but human-made Eucharistic elements of bread and wine can affect only the material body.’

‘And what we have is some bread and wine - consecrated by the Word and prayer to be to us the body and blood of our Lord.’

‘Worshipers share bread and wine in the Eucharist as a sign of their unity with each other and with Jesus.’

‘His bodily gestures at the altar in presiding at the Eucharist, especially in consecrating the bread and wine, were important.’

‘Jesus gathered with his apostles, teaching that bread and wine would become the Eucharist.’

‘I feel a need to rub elbows with fellow Christians, kneel at a communion rail, taste the bread and wine.’

‘Second, researchers could ask if Catholics believe that the consecrated bread and wine are symbols in which the body and blood of Christ are really present.’

‘They rejected the sacrament of baptism and denied the presence of Christ in the Eucharist - the Christian sacrament commemorating the Last Supper by consecrating bread and wine.’

‘The Catholic church bars non-Catholics from sharing the Eucharist because of differences over the interpretation of how Jesus is present in the elements of bread and wine.’

‘We need to live our lives formed by the radical sharing of bread and wine in the Eucharist.’

‘We know him: in our prayer, in the bread and wine of the sacrament, in every gracious word, in smiles of generous welcome and in every moment of joy or beauty that leaves us more whole and human.’

‘It means: the true and total change of bread and wine into Christ's body and blood.’

‘Conversely, the Christian sacrifice of bread and wine in the Eucharist is a rejection of the shedding of blood in animal sacrifice.’

‘They could conduct baptisms, weddings and funerals, but certain priestly functions were still forbidden, including consecrating the communion bread and wine.’

‘We understand now that when we bless the bread and wine, they are transformed into Jesus' own body and blood.’

‘It may sound precious, but I wonder if a first step is to begin making, literally making, the bread and wine of communion.’

‘I mean, of course, the fourfold action of taking, blessing, breaking, and giving the elements of bread and wine.’

‘What makes us holy, common though we may be, is exactly what makes the elements of bread and wine holy.’

the bread of life

A source of spiritual nourishment:

‘the Roman Catholic Church and faith were the bread of life to the subordinate classes’

‘What sense does it make to bring someone to new birth if they are not to be fed on the bread of life?’

‘My attitude toward the men and women I was gathering in the congregation was silently shaped by how I was planning to use them to succeed, with little thought to feeding their souls with the bread of life.’

‘It is the bread of life, and you don't have to bake it.’

‘Around the same time as Peter's bold profession, Jesus told a crowd of people that he was no less than the bread of life and that those who ate of him would live forever.’

‘This is the bread of life, this unimportant failure to be perfect.’

‘Christ comes to each of us, not to be a snack but to be the full meal for our lives, as He is the bread of life.’

‘The name Bethlehem means ‘House of Bread’ an appropriate name for the one who came to feed us with the bread of life.’

‘He noted with disgust that he had been given ‘stone instead of the bread of life.’’

‘To people who are without God and without hope in the world, it is not the bread of life but only a ‘handful of pebbles’.’

‘In New Testament language, he wants to partake of the bread of life and drink the living water.’

‘What does it mean to say that Jesus is ‘the living bread of life?’’

‘In the sixth chapter of the gospel Jesus says, ‘I am the bread of life.’’

‘He is sealed and appointed by God the Father, to give the bread of life to them that hunger, and to give the water of life to them that thirst.’

‘He is the Holy One of God, he is the bread of life that came down from heaven.’

‘Singing is the milk and honey, but sermons, the gospel, is your bread, the bread of life.’

‘Christ feedeth and fast nourisheth his church with his own precious body, that is, the bread of life coming down from heaven.’

‘Distributing the bread of life by preaching Christ to sinners is a greater work than feeding five thousand with loaves and fishes.’

‘It is to this place that those whom Jesus raises from the dead will go as well as those who have eaten the bread of life which comes down from heaven.’

break bread

1Celebrate the Eucharist:

‘as we gathered to break bread, a sense of thanksgiving ran through us’

‘The Christian practice of breaking bread acknowledges the table - at home, at work, at school, at church - as a place not only for food but also for speech.’

‘Then we broke bread and fed each other from God's table.’

‘It's a lot easier to imagine him eating a working lunch in a corporate boardroom than breaking bread at a prayer breakfast with a bunch of Christian Dominionists.’

‘Jesus broke bread and said it would represent his body.’

‘I didn't earn the right to preach, to break bread at the table of Christ, to walk beside people while they pass through the rough places.’

‘I am thinking especially of the oil painting in the Louvre where a tired and almost anaemic God is recognised by the two disciples with whom he breaks bread in the inn at Emmaus.’

‘He gave them a new commandment: break bread together in his memory, and love each other.’

‘Accepting the freedom of this way and sharing it in life together for the sake of the whole world, we find that our random acts of nutrition have been transformed into the Christian practice of breaking bread.’

‘Rather than ceasing to baptize or break bread, Lewis suggests an attitude of repentance because of the lack of unity among Christians.’

‘Later, however, precise details would be given: namely, that this confession would take place when the community gathered on each Lord's day to break bread and celebrate the Eucharist.’

1.1dated Share a meal with someone:

‘Donald's staying to break bread with us’

‘I hope you are in not so much of a rush that you cannot stay and break bread with us.’

‘I was able to break bread with him just last week.’

‘I'm out of town the rest of today for a loan closing and to break bread with an old friend or two.’

‘Those who had the privilege to know him and break bread with him never felt bored or lonely.’

‘Local residents can fire questions and voice concerns and break bread with them as they pass.’

‘All we say is that you cannot live by bread alone, which means you cannot live by material standards.’

‘And since you cannot live by bread alone, you must feed on the bread of life by faith, clinging always to the things of the Ruach Hakodesh, that is, the Moshiach's life-giving words.’

‘Biblically, one cannot live by bread alone, but Lent has seen me living almost entirely on Starbucks’ avocado and sun dried tomato sandwiches, with banana and toffee muffins for dessert!’

‘As they say, you cannot live by bread alone, so be sure to take care of the liquid side of your diet as well.’

‘Advocates of Taiwan independence, particularly those residing comfortably in the United States, like to point out that one cannot live by bread alone, but must have the personal freedom of choice.’

‘While bread has been referred to as the ‘staff of life,’ it is also true that you cannot live by bread alone.’

cast one's bread upon the waters

Do good without expecting gratitude or reward:

‘if you don't cast your bread upon the waters, it won't come back to you when you need it most’

‘Once you've cast your bread upon the waters, don't wait around for the responses to come back.’

‘We will cast our bread upon the waters and cheer the Chargers all the way.’

‘But she cast her bread upon the waters by giving everyone she met her time and her kindness.’

‘When we cast our bread upon the waters, we can presume the someone downstream whose face we may never see will benefit from our action, even as we enjoy the gifts sent to us from a donor upstream.’

‘That is why it has always been my greatest desire to get these poems out and to cast my bread upon the waters so to speak.’

‘Cast your bread upon the waters, but do it confidently, not hesitatingly, remembering that you cast your bread upon the waters of baptism.’

‘In short, in true biblical fashion, the homily to which we are being treated is that we should cast our bread upon the waters in the hope - after not too many days - of hauling in a high-tech bakery!’

‘We are to cast our bread upon the waters, which may seem fruitless.’

‘When we minister to the saints, when we cast our bread upon the waters, when we honor Him and His word, God will certainly bless us.’

‘In my opinion Andy has cast his bread upon the waters, and according to the Good Book, it should come back to him seven-fold one of these days.’

‘And we cast our bread upon the waters and fed the birds - ducks, swans, and fat pigeons on the banks.’

‘The Bible tells us to cast our bread upon the waters and it will return to us.’

‘He cast his bread upon the waters, and deservedly it was returned to him in the love and affection of his family and friends.’

‘If you don't cast your bread upon the waters, it can't come back to you when you need it most.’

‘He sowed living seed, and he expected to reap a harvest from it; he cast his bread upon the waters, and he means to search and watch till he finds it again.’

‘Once we have cast our bread upon the waters, the most we can do is wait.’

‘To be on the safe side, we know on what side our bread is buttered, and we cast our bread upon the waters to ensure a fair share for all.’

‘Often the best I can do personally is to cast my bread upon the waters and hope that it will feed somebody.’

‘The apostle had cast his bread upon the waters of Ilissus and Cephisus to find it after many days.’

‘Anyway, the Bible enjoins us to cast our bread upon the waters, and in this case I got the wet bread back thirty years later.’

‘I would suggest that where something so desperately close to our very lives is concerned, our daily bread, we should not lightly ignore the question of who owns it lock, stock and barrel.’

‘The boys in their attempt to earn their daily bread clean tables and collect used plates and tumblers, with the disappointment writ large on their faces on finding children of the same age group enjoying delicious dishes.’

‘Will we always live in the shadows, more worried about the daily bread and less about the lasting values that we have always searched for?’

‘Over 90 per cent of the people lived in the country and earned their daily bread and ale from the resources of the land.’

‘It is considered honourable to earn one's daily bread through honest work and not by begging or dishonest means.’

‘Unlike the animals in the zoo, who lead a sedate life, animals in the Shanghai Circus have to earn their daily bread through hard training and good performances.’

‘Earl is more than capable of earning his daily bread at any time as a journalist of some regard at home and elsewhere around the region.’

‘Above all, there is need for a paradigm shift from jobless to job-led growth in order to ensure that every poor person is enabled to earn his or her daily bread.’

‘Sometimes they would ride their carriage into the village, and there they would see poor people working hard to earn their daily bread.’

‘For the working class family, it may help their daily bread.’

‘So the electric water heater has started earning its daily bread once more.’

‘People here are preoccupied with money and resigned to the pressure to compete for their daily bread.’

know which side one's bread is buttered (on)

informal Know where one's advantage lies:

‘middle-class people who know which side their bread is buttered’

‘There are various ways of sidestepping such rules, but one of the best ones is only to brief an expert with a well-developed reputation of knowing which side his bread is buttered on.’

‘They know which side their bread is buttered on and vote accordingly.’

‘Robin Richards on the other hand knows which side his bread is buttered and gave much cause for indigestion with his saccharine acceptance of the job.’

‘They know which side their bread is buttered on and until that changes, they won't budge.’

‘Yep, I'm a lucky man, and I know which side my bread is buttered.’

‘Holland is a sober-suited confidant who knows which side his bread is buttered on.’

‘After all, the quiet genius with a wicked wit knows which side his bread is buttered on.’

‘Gotta let 'em know which side their bread is buttered on.’

‘Sylvester Stallone, knowing which side his bread is buttered, isn't just stopping at resurrecting Rocky in the movies.’

take the bread out of (or from) people's mouths

Deprive people of their livings by competition or unfair working practices:

‘he declared it would be better to get fair wages than see the bread taken out of our mouths’

‘Public funds rest upon taxation: they take the bread out of people's mouths, willing or no.’

want one's bread buttered on both sides

informal Want more than is practicable or than is reasonable to expect:

‘the play wants its bread buttered on both sides’

‘He is not willing to make any sacrifice but wants his bread buttered on both sides.’

‘The forum is full of people who seem to want their bread buttered on both sides - who seem to say one thing and do another.’

‘She wants her bread buttered on both sides - she does not want to be committed to one person’

‘Corporate females on the other hand want their bread buttered on both sides’

‘Universities that want their bread buttered on both sides when it comes to affirmative action would do better to apply more fiber than fat in their reasoning.’

Origin

Old English brēad, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch brood and German Brot.